India, Sept. 5 -- As the organisation evolves from a regional security forum into an ambitious network spanning finance, technology, energy and connectivity, its growing influence must be judged not by its opposition to Western dominance, but by the same standards of power, accountability and equality it demands of the West

China's rise is real. The SCO's institutional expansion is real. The erosion of the old assumption of uncontested Western primacy is real. But the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Bishkek last week has once again confirmed that global politics is moving away from the old assumption that one power can organise the international system largely on its own terms. The SCO also insisted that it is not a military ...